Basic Facts
Planet fifth from the sun?
Jupiter
Jupiters famous great red spot is actually one of these?
Giant Storm
Jupiter has discovered this man moons (as of 2025)
95
This spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter launched in 2011 and arrived in 2016
Juno
Jupiter is sometimes called the ____ of the solar syste.
Giant
Jupiter is mostly made up of these two gases?
Hydrogen and Helium
Jupiters colored bands are caused by these fast moving air patterns.
Jet streams
These 4 moons are called the Galilean moons.
Lo , Europa, Ganymede , Callisto
The first missions to fly by Jupiter in the 1970s
Pioneer and Voyager
Jupiters magnetic field is about this many times stronger than earths.
20,000x
Jupiter Spins once every 10 hours, making it the planet with the shortest what?
Day
Winds on Jupiter can reach this speed in mph.
300 mph
This moon is the most volcanically active body in the solar system.
Lo
The Galileo spacecraft orbited Jupiter in this decade.
These bright lights appear at Jupiters poles, similar to earths northern lights.
Auroras
More than this many earths could fit inside Jupiter?
1,300
Deep inside Jupiter gas becomes this strange metallic form.
metallic hydrogen
Scientists believe this icy moon may have a hidden ocean beneath its surface.
Europa
NASAs upcoming mission will explore Europe’s icy surface.
Europa Clipper
T or F: Has anyone ever landed on Jupiter
False
It takes Jupiter about this many earth years to orbit the sun once?
12 years
Jupiters lightning storms are made mostly from this chemical compound.
ammonia or water vapor
The largest moon in the solar system
Ganymede
This Italian astronomer first saw Jupiters moons in 1610.
Galileo Galilei
Jupiters gravity helps protect earth by doing this to comets and asteroids.
Pulling them in or deflecting them away